"I've always had a lot of very dedicated fans," John says. "You know — the kind who are like good friends who get too close to your face when they're drunk, but you're both laughing about it because you're drunk too. And now there are all kinds of new people who are getting into it, and all the girls are fucking cute. It's been a crazy couple of years, and if these fine little model things keep showing up at my shows, this is going to be my biggest album ever."

Love's life Three hours late, Courtney Love stormed into the Ames Hotel on Court Street a week ago Wednesday, faced a small group of radio-station contest winners, and explained that her tardiness was the result of a mid-day romp in the sack with an ex-boyfriend who's now a professor at Harvard University.

Goose Bumps 4.0 is an aural smorgasbord Milled Pavement Records' Goose Bumps series of hip-hop/electronic music compilations comes to an end with a bang: The fourth and final installment has 66 tracks featuring 96 different artists over the course of four albums.

Review: I'm Still Here Only someone who’s unfamiliar with psychedelic treats and chemically induced psychosis could think I’m Still Here is anything but real.

CZARFACE SOARS ABOVE THE CLOUDS | February 11, 2013 This week 7LES and Inspectah Deck drop Czarface , a full-length work of adventurous genius revolving around a metal-clad protagonist who feeds on destruction.

THE BPD ADDS INSULT TO INJURY | February 05, 2013 At times, this kind of decision makes you wonder whether the BPD is saving its best awards for officers who've been involved in the death of civilians.